Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 22Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1851 |
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... living language , as the poems of Dante subsequently did the Tuscan , giving both literary pre - eminence over other dialects previously of equal pretensions . It imparted to it from its very birth a grave , didactic , characteristic ...
... living language , as the poems of Dante subsequently did the Tuscan , giving both literary pre - eminence over other dialects previously of equal pretensions . It imparted to it from its very birth a grave , didactic , characteristic ...
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... living spirit was want- ing ; throughout it kept parallel with politics ; manly and free in the earlier chronicles , now it became silent as regards the hazardous present , and , fearing to look forward , either fell back on the safe ...
... living spirit was want- ing ; throughout it kept parallel with politics ; manly and free in the earlier chronicles , now it became silent as regards the hazardous present , and , fearing to look forward , either fell back on the safe ...
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... living things of this world . The ground was firm and favorable for riding . At every stride I gained upon the giraffes , and , after a short time , at a swinging gallop , I was in the midst of them , and turned the finest cow out of ...
... living things of this world . The ground was firm and favorable for riding . At every stride I gained upon the giraffes , and , after a short time , at a swinging gallop , I was in the midst of them , and turned the finest cow out of ...
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... living dear , and be the commencement of a civil war . ' That idea decided me . summary of every vice - that the King was Some pamphlet greedy and miserly - that the King was faithless eers have said that I was under the influence of ...
... living dear , and be the commencement of a civil war . ' That idea decided me . summary of every vice - that the King was Some pamphlet greedy and miserly - that the King was faithless eers have said that I was under the influence of ...
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Page 55 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe...
Page 232 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Page 197 - Ay, sir ; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
Page 239 - My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, "I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!
Page 193 - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ;* A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long...
Page 469 - Behold, I stand at the door, and knock : if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and sup with him, and he with me.
Page 71 - Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all future periods of this commonwealth, to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them;...
Page 69 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Page 66 - Calvinists, you see, stick fast where they were left by that great man of God who yet saw not all things.
Page 250 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite ; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold ; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand ; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.